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In the past few weeks, I have seen several news articles that describes how ammunition, and to a lesser extent - firarms, are being bought in such quantities that many stores are having a hard time keeping ammunition in stock... are you seeing that in your area?
Yea,at the store I work at,2 guys purchased all the .22 ammo they saw on the shelves,they missed the shells on the "pog" counters,but they got quite a haul of ammo with what they got.
Several places that usually sell it for less can't seem to keep much in stock. Mostly what I am having difficulty in finding are the bulk quantites 500 to 1000 round cases. It's there, but you have to look pretty hard.
.45, .40, 9mm and 22 are nearly impossible to find. Some of the larger calibers like 30.06 are pretty scarce, too. Shotgun in all calibers is still pretty easy to find.
Seen a person trying to get .38 and they told him good luck finding them.
I was at the Tulsa Arms Show last weekend and .380acp if you could find it was selling for as much as $70 per 50 round box. One table was selling CCI minimags .22lr for $16 per 100 round box. Both 7.62x39 & .223 was going for $400 per 1000.
*Makes mental note: Buy more ammo this week.*
*Asks self question: "Where am I gonna' put ANOTHER gun and ammo safe?"*
Safe room in the new house maybe?
The plans are in the works. I just may have to cut down on the size of the workshop. :sad:Quote:
Originally Posted by crashdive123
Something like this?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3031/...9a86305f0c.jpg
It just ain't to be had anywhere around here. The only thing you can find are skeet loads. Imagine sticking a 12ga in somebody's ear just to get their attention. I haven't fired my usual 150 rounds per week in a month but I am busy looking for baseball size rocks.
I wish. My honey has already accepted the small gun safe in the bedroom and the LARGE one in the safe room downstairs. She's accepted all the gear and supplies. She's accepted the generator, the food and water storage, and the BOBS. She's actually excited about the garden - her green thumb is alot greener than mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by crashdive123
Now - how do I convince her we need an addition on the house for the stuff I still want to add?
I was thinking ..... Maybe a few new rooms at ground level with more basement room for me ......
I was looking online comparing prices for 357 ammo, but every store I found was sold out.
This is your government speaking: Please Pay attention, we said we would not take your firearms, The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the peoples right to own firearms..................
NO BODY said you had the right to AMMO.
Which would be imposable to control, the existing Millions of firearms, or future sales of ammo.
You go before the people and say: You can own a thousand firearms, own five thousand firearms, Continue to hunt with the NEW ammo, that has primers that self destruct in 300 to 400 days after manufacture. NO one is saying you can't own firearms, no one is saying you can't hunt. Anyone caught with old style ammo will go to jail for ten years.
When we want to make you neutered, we just issue a 6 months moratorium on new ammo sales. Then we wait 6 months, and give you 90 days to turn in all firearms.:)
News and Press Releases
Ammunition in High Demand
Winchester Ammunition 4/7/2009
"Winchester Ammunition, like other ammunition manufacturers, has seen the demand for our products increase significantly since last fall. To meet that increased demand, our operations are running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our team is literally working around the clock to make quality ammunition available for purchase. We remain absolutely committed to meeting the growing needs of our customers."
Exactly. This isn't a government control thing. This is a paranoia level hoarding that the manufacturers can't keep up with. This is a marketing dream come true for them. They couldn't buy this kind of frenzy with advertising if they tried.
Paranoia? Who's paranoid?
*What's that? Another 20,000 rounds? Yes dear.*
I want to be clear that I am not paranoid about the government taking action. My point is if you buy a new gun, you should buy a fair amount of ammo for it. I have about 20 five gal. jerry jugs of gasoline for the same reason. Gun are tools, and like my chainsaws, log splitter, snow machine, emergency generators, they are useless tools without fuel.
I agree with Rick, that said, now that they know people well pay more, don't expect .22LR to go back to $00.85 per box. All ammo prices will stay higher than it was. This was a good wake-up warning for people. Most of the gun stores in Alaska have no ammo, or little ammo. Sales here are up 800%.
The one thing I am paranoid about is world change......Old people don't like change, not even good change, old people want things steady and stable.
We have massive world change going on. Massive.....
i know right i mean i go and buy two handguns and try and buy couple hundred rounds od ammo and they call the cops lmao jking
The nut case anti gunners feel EMPOWERED because the rule the house, senate and their Messiah is the prez. As such they are trying to push thru all these redicilous laws pretaining to ammo.
Democracy is two wolves and a rabbit voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well armed rabbit preventing the vote from being enforced.:)
Wow... I'm impressed... that's a good analogy. Given the standard of human nature today, the tendency is for those with power, money, influence, etc to force their agenda over the good of the country - or group.Quote:
Originally Posted by hopeak
You have my vote!
Is that really a Cootism? I don't know how to act with two "Coots" on the forum. I'm not sure we can stand it. Either way, spoken like a true politician. Nice job.
For us, no change to either way when it comes to ammo sales.
Only recent change is stricter laws in getting premission to carry a firearm. You got to be 18 instead of 15(or was it 16) and for handguns you need really good reason. This due two tragic school massacres in last couple of years. Funny thing is that politicans don't seem to understand that it is not the easy acces to guns and ammo that causes such things, it is the increase of mental problems of people.
Bravo!!
Here here!!
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...7_crowd416.jpg
Sorry if I went off a bit in an earlier post, but if you saw the laws that have recently been passed and those that they are trying to push through here in California you would cringe. Of course our esteamed senator wants to push through another assault gun ban bill.
Do any of you have a definative definition of an assault weapon???
Cars, Trucks, Baseball bats, I have a Bad'A$$ four prong Pitch-fork, I have five assault-Geese they can peck you to death in 15 minutes. On the north 40 there are my highly skilled assault Grizzly Bears......:smash::smash::smash:Quote:
Originally Posted by SARKY
Yeah, what he said.
No fuel for survival?
Green plants and tomahawks will never die (permanently). An AK47, a Mosin Nagant and a .22 with a scope with 5,000 rounds each will give you one heck of a head start in my book for survival. And don't forget your cache tubes! Have a look - see here for the tomahawks:
http://www.rmjtactical.com/
crash..... How'd ya get the pics of my basement?????
Ain't it the truth? When a man owns a flame thrower there just ain't much left to drool over.
According to Rosie O'Donnel (My favorite person) it is "a gun that fires a bullet, every time you pull the trigger."Quote:
Originally Posted by SARKY
... is it supposed to happen every other time Rosie dear?
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Originally Posted by Chris
The only thing I agree with Rosie on is we both like women. She is a waste of good air and so stupid the NRA would do well to hire her. That person kinda wants to make me :bat:......I quit, time for the blood pressure stuff.:drool:
I went on the eternal quest today for more ammo, which isn't to be found. Wally World now has a sign stating you can only buy six boxes at a time so other folks can get some. I have no idea how many times you can get in line.
You know, I know we aren't allowed to post on politics... but I'm not sure if this constitutes as political - if it does, please delete this post admins.Quote:
Originally Posted by wildography
But I think that people are scared that Obama is gonna ban firearm use - which we all know is impossible, so people are stocking up and freaking out. Just an opinion, but again, please ignore the political end of it :D
Once a frenzy starts it just feeds on itself. I buy more than I normally would because I know if I find any kind of ammo it might be weeks before I find it again so I buy all I can. Everyone is doing it and the manufacturers can't keep up. Part is the concern of some law being passed but I think it has taken on a life of its own now.
As everybody has said, it is tough to find ammo in stock at Wal Mart. When they get it in the seem to stock the shelves (at least around here) at about 9:30. I picked up a bit, and the cashier let me know that Wal Mart has just put a six box limit on purchases of ammo.
I was at a gun shop the other day and one of the sales people said that their firearms sales are starting to go down because people can buy the gun, but then they can't find any ammo for it anywhere.
It is very much possible. We won DC vs. Heller by 1 justice. A justice is stepping down and obama is going to appoint a new one. Any guess as to the new SC justice's gun control policy? He also doesn't have to ban all guns, he needs but to make ammo to expensive. He could increase the excise tax and we would be without protection from the 2nd amendment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goloth
Ever since November firearms are getting difficult to find, and ammo is rare. Everytime I go to the local sporting goods store, they are sold out of pistol ammo and 22 long rifle - and especially the cheap stuff. Once the price of 22 reaches $25 - $30 a box, the stores have plenty of that in stock.
A couple of the stores marked the prices of ars and aks up by 3X overnight. After obama was elected, the stores around here had their wasr-10s marked at around 1,400. When just a couple of weeks earlier they were $375. The big discount stores are staying pretty stable on their gun prices, and especailly the ARs. One guy told me they are selling out of ARs the same day they arrive at the store. They only put a couple out on display, or people will buy all of them at the same time.